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WORD SEGMENTATION : THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES

open access: yes, 1996
One of the infant’s first tasks in language acquisition is to discover the words embedded in a mostly continuous speech stream. This learning problem might be solved by using distributional cues to word boundaries — for example, by computing the ...
Jenny R. Saffran, E. Newport, R. Aslin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Temporal Order Processing of Syllables in the Left Parietal Lobe

open access: yesJournal of Neuroscience, 2009
Speech processing requires the temporal parsing of syllable order. Individuals suffering from posterior left hemisphere brain injury often exhibit temporal processing deficits as well as language deficits.
Dana C. Moser   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lost in the Language: Data Breaches and the Strategic Fog of Risk Disclosures

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether firms strategically adjust the readability of Item 1A (“Risk Factors”) disclosures following data breaches. Using U.S. firm‐year observations from 2006 to 2023, we find that data breaches are associated with a significant decline in Item 1A readability.
Ling Tuo, Shipeng Han
wiley   +1 more source

Scat syllables and markedness theory

open access: yes, 2008
A highly creative domain between the prosodies of human language and the riffs of instrumental jazz is the dynamic vocal jazz idiom of scat. The present analysis proceeds from the observation that, despite the distinctly individualistic approaches to ...
Shaw, Patricia A.
core   +2 more sources

Attention effects on the processing of task-relevant and task-irrelevant speech sounds and letters

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2013
We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to study effects of selective attention on the processing of attended and unattended spoken syllables and letters.
Maria eMittag   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Selection of Suitable Features for Modeling the Durations of Syllables

open access: yesJournal of Software Engineering and Applications, 2010
Acoustic analysis and synthesis experiments have shown that duration and intonation patterns are the two most important prosodic features responsible for the quality of synthesized speech. In this paper a set of features are proposed which will influence
K. Rao, S. Koolagudi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Role of A Surgeon in Restoring the Senses & in Biomedical Engineering

open access: yesANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review is based on my 2025 Jepson Lecture and outlines my personal journey to restore hearing in people with a severe sensorineural hearing loss. My dream started as a 5‐year‐old as I told my kindergarten teacher when I grow up ‘I want to fix ears’ because my father is deaf. The journey resulted in a career in surgery followed by auditory
Graeme M. Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Female removal from male-female interaction changed the number of syllables produced and percent use of syllables types.

open access: yes, 2012
A total of 21528 syllables were analyzed. A) The number of syllables increased during the 5 minutes after interaction (Wilcoxon signed ranks *p = 0.015).
Laura M. Hurley (150755)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

A comparison of lexeme and speech syllables in Dutch [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
The CELEX lexical database includes a list of Dutch syllables and their frequencies, based on syllabification of isolated word forms. In connected speech, however, sentence-level phonological rules can modify the syllables and their token frequencies. In
Schiller, N.O.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Structured decision‐making as a framework to incorporate social equity into conservation decisions

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many conservation challenges require negotiating trade‐offs between the needs of different actors. Global frameworks such as the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework explicitly call for diverse participation and social equity in conservation decision‐making.
Emily Massingham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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